Super-resolution imaging at different wavelengths by using a one-dimensional metamaterial structure

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Zeng, Beibei ^a   Yang, Xuefeng ^a   Wang, Changtao ^a   Feng, Qin ^a   Luo, Xiangang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

Models; Multilayers; Numerical simulation; Theory

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC DIELECTRICS; IMAGING MECHANISM; IMAGING STRUCTURE; INCIDENT FIELDS; INCIDENT WAVELENGTH; METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SUB-DIFFRACTION; SUB-WAVELENGTH STRUCTURES; SUPER RESOLUTION IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; WORKING DISTANCES; THEORY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; METAMATERIALS; MULTILAYERS; MODELS; PERMITTIVITY;

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

EID: 75849155720     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/12/3/035104     Document Type: Article

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